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xi, 373 pages 25 cm Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975 Includes bibliographical references and index English patterns for Virginia planters -- The development of a Virginia aristocracy -- The quality of the gentry -- The planters' concern over education -- Books and their place in plantation life -- William Fitzhugh: The evolution of an aristocrat -- Ralph Wormeley II: A cultivated gentleman-planter -- Richard Lee II: A belated Elizabethan -- The literate interests of the first carters -- Robert Beverley II: Historian and iconoclast -- The Byrd's progress from trade to genteel elegence -- The vitality of the tradition
- Author
- Louis B. Wright
- Publisher
- San Marino, Calif., The Huntington Library
- Published
- 1940
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
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